Word: claridon
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...captain (George Sanders) of the liner Claridon, several days at sea with 1,500 passengers aboard, is not alarmed by the news of the fire, and fortune at first seems to smile on his sangfroid. The blaze is quickly put out. But its heat has fused the safety valve of the No. 3 boiler, which eventually blows its top through third, second and first-class cabins and rips a sizable hole in the side of the ship. The captain orders the lifeboats lowered, and as bulkhead after bulkhead bursts, he makes his desperate calculations: in 50 minutes the Claridon will...
...stern. Promptly the Greek Line, which has a ship called Olympia, threatened suit. More paint. This week, if all goes according to schedule the Ile de France, her three forward compartments flooded with 7,000 tons of Osaka Bay, will aim her four great screws and the new name Claridon into the wide, wide lenses...
...body of Charles Edward Starbuck of the class of 1903, who disappeared on May 9, was found yesterday in the Shawsheen river at Andover. Starbuck was born on March 1, 1881, at Claridon, Ohio, and entered Phillips Andover Academy with the class of '99. Since that time he lived at Andover, coming to the University each day to attend his recitations. He was a son of Charles C. Starbuck, a professor in the Andover Theological Seminary. He was a good student, being particularly interested in the study of the Classics. All those who knew him respected him for his conscientious...
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